Lincoln Park Zoo

Poets read to rapt audiences, and authors of fiction tried to explain the creative process. Celebrity chefs lured big crowds to sit under a hot sun, and mystery writers answered questions in SRO auditoriums. There was something for almost everyone at the 16th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, held this past weekend on the USC campus. What follows is a sampling of reports on the festival from the Jacket Copy blog. Meeting Ginsberg Before she read a section from "Just Kids," punk poetess Patti Smith set up the audience to laugh. "It has its beauty," she said of her memoir, and "it has its sorrow." But Smith said she would be reading something funny...

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Check out all the kids at play! The human kiddos laugh and giggle at the antics of the animals all day at the St. Louis Zoo. It's one of three major free zoos left in the country along with the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., and the Lincoln Park Zoo in...

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